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| 773892 | 2009-05-14 19:49:00 | Have been playing with the 32 bit version just loaded into a file on my data drive, now wish to remove and try the 64 bit to see if everything I use will work. I am assuming I can just delete the files and then do a fixboot and fixmbr from my XP CD. Can someone just confirm this so I can get onto it tonight. :thanks:thanks | gary67 (56) | ||
| 773893 | 2009-05-14 21:42:00 | Format over it with 64 bit. I usually keep a copy of the boot.ini file for the main OS I use.. Then after I finish with whatever OS, I overwrite boot.ini (with the original text). Reboot (then it'll load the original OS only). Then format the partition, I installed the other OS on. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 773894 | 2009-05-14 22:21:00 | You really should make a seperate partition for windows 7 just to be safe, or install it on a vhd. IT should be fine if you just run the fixboot and fixmbr command though. BAckup your data, just incase something goes wrong. Blam |
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| 773895 | 2009-05-15 05:22:00 | I have daily backups of my data and yes I should have made a new partition but didn't just put it on my data drive | gary67 (56) | ||
| 773896 | 2009-05-15 08:02:00 | Word of warnig you cannot just delete the folders in XP. I went into Puppy linux live and deleted them then had to restore C using an image I made as my XP CD kept blue screening something in the Win 7 install was corrupting my onboard video. All done now. Will make a partition this time You live and learn | gary67 (56) | ||
| 773897 | 2009-05-15 09:02:00 | You can also make a VHD instead and install it on that-it'll be as if you have 2 HDDs and you don't need to configure bootloaders or anything-once you want to uninstall it, you just delete the VHD. I have instructions on one of my posts in my blog(under "Install Windows7 on VHD": win-help.co.cc BTW Its quite different to installing as a VM, its pretty much dual booting kinda Blam |
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